William Accousti
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New Orleans, LANPI 1629099536
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,100 of the $45,812 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Stryker accounts for 94.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $18,121 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $512 in 2025.
Across 133 payments — averaging $344.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$43K
- Zimmer Biomet$713
- Globus Medical$402
- Medtronic$272
- Spine Wave, Inc.$266
- Highridge Medical LLC$244
- plus $621 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$36,10079%
- Travel & lodging$4,60010%
- Food & beverage$5,11211%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 91 | $43,294 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $713 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $402 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $272 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 2 | $266 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $244 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $142 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $108 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $99 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 1 | $87 |
| Woven Orthopedic Technologies, LLC | 1 | $64 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $35 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $27 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MESA$13,783
- AIRO$13,421
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$10,010
- XIA$2,747
- MESA SMALL STATURE SYSTEM$2,625
- MESA RAIL$2,126
- The Tether$675
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$452
- MESA SMALL STATURE SPINAL SYSTEM$324
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$219
- SPINAL IMPLANT$206
- MAGEC Spinal Bracing and Distraction System$167
- Marvel Growing Rod$167
- Rod Link Reducer$167
- BACS$132
- EVEREST$122
- DENALI$122
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$117
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$117
- TFN ADVANCED$117
How this compares
$45,812 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Louisiana.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New Orleans
- Mathew CyriacNew Orleans$368K
- Charles YuNew Orleans$52K
- Amit BhandutiaNew Orleans$39K
- Felipe Ramirez-TerrassaNew Orleans$15K
- Andrew ToddNew Orleans$12K
- Parth DesaiNew Orleans$6K
- Andrew KingNew Orleans$5K
- Caroline SchneiderNew Orleans$641
- Paul DimartinoNew Orleans$165
- Joseph ZavatskyMetairie$205K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.